2 Gb File Size Limit ?

Jesse Keating jkeating at j2solutions.net
Fri Nov 14 22:17:06 UTC 2003


On Friday 14 November 2003 13:42, Matheesha wrote:
> I just blasted a 47.85GB NTFS partition on Windows 2000 and attempted
> to create another partition and format using FAT32 and it failed at
> the last moment with the Immortal Words (TM) Logical Disk Manager:
> Volume size too big."
>
> So I guess that proves it. Though I am not sure how Windows XP
> behaves. I am not sure how you made the 32GB FAT32 partition. I am
> not sure how you made the partition but I assume it cannot be using
> the standard method of making partitions in Windows using the disk
> manager snap-in.

Windows itself is incapable of making the large Fat32 file systems.  
Linux on the otherhand can create them just fine, and windows can read 
them upon reboot.

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